Health

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The United Nations warned Latin America on the emergence of new psychoactive substances in the region, causing serious consequences on consumers and the need to begin to train their authorities in detection mechanisms...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Malaria cases have decreased by 58% in Central America, but there are still 106 million people at risk of getting it because they are living in endemic areas said José Ruales, the representative...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Doctors at a hospital in San Jose successfully performed the first lung transplant in Costa Rica to a man who suffers from a degenerative disease.The procedure was performed Monday at the Calderon Guardia...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Ministry of Health of Costa Rica confirmed the death of a woman due to dengue, who became the first fatality from the virus in the country since 2010.The director of the Ministry...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Americans, yet to discover how Obamacare will affect their coverage and savings in the coming years, patients and baby-boomers are choosing a growing health care phenomenon abroad called medical tourism.Lack affordable health insurance...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rica recorded a total of 41,510 cases of dengue fever, of which 111 were of the severe hemorrhagic variety, but the authorities have not recorded any deaths so far, official sources said...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - So far this year, 30,134 health products have been seized entering Costa Rica. However, it is unknown how many of these are products for performance enhancing steroids for athletes.Four high-level cyclists have been...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The II National Youth Survey  revealed that 44.5% of sexually active Costa Ricans, aged between 15 and 35, never used condoms during intercourse.The survey, conducted by the Council of Young Persons (CPJ in Spanish),...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Brazilian government donated to the Social Security Fund of Costa Rica a total of 300 bottles of a product used in diagnostic tests for tuberculosis.The Costa Rican Foreign Ministry expressed its gratitude...

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The death toll from influenza A in Costa Rica this year rose to nine, with a total of 120 people have been hospitalized, sources said from the Ministry of Health.The doctor Henry Wasserman,...